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Looptopia: Good Night/Good Morning

So after they turned off the lights on me at the Chicago Cultural Center (something about a flashlight tour), I decided it was time to get off the streets and head back to the NBC Tower.

I uploaded some of the pictures and video my fellow bloggers gathered over the last few hours and then I fell asleep — hard — at my desk. I guess you could say I’m not a true Looptopian, however, after heading to Millenium Park for the morning festivities at about 8:15 a.m. (I’m blogging from the park right now), I discovered that there are very few true Looptopians out there. The park is empty, save a few tourists and families.

So what have we learned from this first attempt at an all night party? You tell me. Thousands of people were on the streets this morning and last night, and I’ve heard the gamut of opinions on whether the promotion and execution of this event was satisfactory. Use the “Comments” section below each blog to voice your opinion, especially if you attended that event. Until then — Looptopians unite!

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I just woke up after having attempted to be a “true Looptopian”, and being left to roam aimlessly about the streets of Chicago as it seemed that Looptopia was more like a Utopian idea gone haywire(?) I joined in on someone’s idea to blog live throughout the night by mobile texting to a website, and most of my posts were about how I didn’t reach an event early enough, thereby being shut out in the back, or events closing earlier because of the organizers running the show, i.e. Macy’s “DJ Club”, decided it was a good idea even though there was still a line to get in. Places seemed to be shutting down, and it was only 11. What happened to “dusk to dawn”? I would say one of the more interesting, and perhaps questionably exciting, “events” was the Lock-in at the Cultural Center. No, this was not part of the flashlight tours – it was “traffic control” improvisation where the crowds wanting to leave were locked-in, forced to shuffle slowly to the ONE (half of a) double door that was left opened, so that those out on the steps wouldn’t sneak in. Genius? Scary experience? Maybe, not so much fun after all. Besides the impromptu rap-off with the street locals near the Pinnacle, the night turned to nomads in a drunken stupor with half empty vodka bottles hanging out of their back pockets. Score one for Chicago and culture. [Insert sarcasm and disappointment here] I’m interested in what the media is going to say (maybe they managed to see the events because of their VIP passes).

There were hundreds of people lines up for breakfast at 5 am. I’m glad Whole Foods started serving breakfast early, since the 5 am drum trio was cancelled by the city, who said that there couldn’t be any noise before 5:34 am, which was official sunrise. How could they not know in advance that the drum event was planned? The Park was still hopping at 7 am.